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Finally, the Flemish government has recognised a number of "registered" institutes of higher education, which mostly issue specialised degrees or provide education mainly in a foreign language: Antwerp Management School ; College of Europe ; Continental Theological Seminary (Sint-Pieters-Leeuw) Evangelical Theological Faculty
[citation needed] Participants typically had several years of work experience and were often employed by one of the many multinational corporations and government organizations located in the Benelux region. Classes were held throughout the day or during weekday evenings allowing students to earn a graduate degree within 18–24 months while ...
Graduate degree (Dutch: gegradueerde, French: gradué): typically a 3-year-long programme at a college, with a vocational character, also called short type or one cycle higher education. Candidate degree (Dutch: kandidaat , French: candidat ): the first 2 years at a university (3 years for medicine studies) or at some colleges offering long ...
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, founder of the Free University of Brussels. The history of the Université libre de Bruxelles is closely linked with that of Belgium itself. When the Belgian State was formed in 1830 by nine breakaway provinces from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, three state universities existed in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liège, but none in the new capital, Brussels.
At the end of the 50 years, the governments of the three Benelux countries decided to renew the agreement, taking into account the new aspects of the Benelux-cooperation – such as security – and the new federal government structure of Belgium. The original establishing treaty, set to expire in 2010, was replaced by a new legal framework ...
Vesalius College, also known as VeCo, is a private college located in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1987, it is named after Andreas Vesalius , a pioneering anatomist of the Renaissance period. The college is associated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and has been part of the Brussels School of Governance, since February 2021, through ...
Brussels is considered the de facto capital of the European Union, having a long history of hosting a number of principal EU institutions within its European Quarter. [2] [3] The EU has no official capital but Brussels hosts the official seats of the European Commission, Council of the European Union, and European Council, as well as a seat (officially the second seat) of the European Parliament.
The Federal Government is responsible for the obligations of Belgium and its federalized institutions towards the European Union and NATO. It controls substantial parts of public health, home affairs and foreign affairs. [101] The budget—without the debt—controlled by the federal government amounts to about 50% of the national fiscal income.